Democrats: We'll push Kasich Medicaid expansion

3:58 PM,
May 1, 2013

Senate Minority Leader Eric Kearney (D-North Avondale)

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Senate Democrats have introduced a bill that could pave the way to extending Medicaid coverage to hundreds of thousands low-income and working poor Ohioans, if the plan can land bi-partisan support.

The move comes less than a week after Republicans stripped the plan from the state's two-year budget proposal, an action that echoed a rejection of Medicaid expansion early in April by the House Republicans.

The bill introduced by Sen. Shirley Smith (D-Cleveland) mirrors the plans laid out by Gov. John Kasich when he introduced his state budget proposal in February. ...